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Gary Hunter Brannon – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study explored the effects that social networking sites use has on the academic performance of middle school-aged students in a small district in California. It identified risks and benefits associated with social networking site use and how those affect student achievement. The study examined parental usage guidance and scrutinized…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Social Media, Web Sites, Handheld Devices
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Mehdi Iravani; Ali Akbar Jafarpour Boroujeni; Mahmood Hashemian – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Cyberloafing, defined as the use of Internet for personal purposes during working hours, is an increasing phenomenon in view of a broad spread of Internet technologies. Although the majority of research on cyberloafing behaviors has focused on employers' cyberloafing in different organizational environments, very little is known about its…
Descriptors: Individual Activities, Underachievement, Influence of Technology, Internet
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Ece Avinç; Fatih Dogan – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
The study aimed to develop a Likert-type measurement tool (Digital Literacy Scale, DLS) to determine the digital literacy levels of secondary school students. The validity and reliability of the developed measurement tool were verified using the Rasch model. The Rasch Model can estimate missing data and allow for small study groups (Rasch, Rasch,…
Descriptors: Digital Literacy, Secondary School Students, Validity, Reliability
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Dereli, Necibe; Sahin Izmirli, Özden – Journal of Educational Technology and Online Learning, 2022
The aim of this study was to examine the cyberloafing behaviors of middle school students during the lesson or while studying. Within the scope of this aim, cyberloafing levels of middle school students were examined by comparing them with the web platforms they use. For this research; which was modelled with explanatory sequential mixed pattern,…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Internet, Social Media, Time Management
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Hannah Soong; Sue Nichols; Karen Dooley; Michelle M. Neumann – Journal of Children and Media, 2025
Children's social lives are mediated increasingly by digital tools, thereby making new modes of home-school-world relationships possible. In this context, children's digital out-of-school social practices continue to be associated with risk. Children are construed as an "at risk" and vulnerable population by adults who frame children's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Life, At Risk Persons, Influence of Technology
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Turel, Yalin Kiliç; Dokumaci, Özlem – Participatory Educational Research, 2022
In today's learning society, use of media and technology affects students in all educational levels. There are a number of studies conducted among university students in this context. However, adolescents, who are sensitively exposed to the negative effects of the excessive use of media and technology, have been neglected. The aim of this study is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Middle School Students, High School Students
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Burnell, Kaitlyn; Andrade, Fernanda C.; Hoyle, Rick H. – Developmental Psychology, 2023
There is fear that adolescents have limited control over their digital technology use. The current research examines longitudinal (Study 1) and daily (Study 2) associations between U.S. adolescents' self-control and digital technological impairment and use. Using a large sample (N = 2,104; Wave 1: M[subscript age] = 12.36, 52% female, 57%…
Descriptors: Correlation, Adolescents, Self Control, Information Technology
Deaton, Maxie N., Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to examine the extent of one-to-one mobile technology implementation on student math achievement as measured by standardized test scores. A second focus was on the extent one-to-one mobile technology implementation has influenced teacher practices in math instruction. A final focus was on the extent that…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Rural Schools, Middle Schools, Handheld Devices
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Colton, Jill – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2019
Theory provides conceptual tools with which to engage in deep thinking about experiences and a shared language by which we can communicate our understandings. Socio-material theory allows us to take account of the role of technology in the performance of learning identities. This has implications for the way that students are produced as learning…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Information Technology
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Lofthus, Liv; Silseth, Kenneth – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2019
The focus of this article is on digital literacy and students' use of digital sources. We are examining how students choose digital video sources when doing group work with tablets in a social studies project. The analysis centers on how students collaboratively negotiate and reason around their choice of video sources during an assignment about…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Information Literacy, Information Sources, Video Technology
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Hilton, Jason T.; Canciello, Joseph – International Journal of Technology in Education, 2018
As one-to-one technology integration with mobile computing technology (MCT) becomes increasingly popular, it is important to examine ways in which such integration can influence classroom instruction. This study explores a five-year period of MCT integration in a small suburban school district, using both survey and focus group interviews. The…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Handheld Devices, Influence of Technology, Classroom Techniques
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Khlaif, Zuheir – Computers in the Schools, 2018
Factors influencing the adoption and acceptance of tablets as a mobile technology were explored one year after their integration in middle schools in Palestine. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 15 teachers. The participants held a variety of attitudes toward accepting mobile technologies in their instruction. The findings revealed…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Adoption (Ideas), Handheld Devices, Technology Uses in Education
Doud, Janet M. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
An integral part of 21st century learning for middle school students included the daily use of mobile device technology. The problem with mobile devices, full of their interactive interfaces, was how did the student personally discover which features and tools within the device will best benefit the student's style and needs, thus enhancing…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Middle School Students, Handheld Devices, Student Experience
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Roser, Monique – Teachers and Curriculum, 2017
The increase in accessibility and demand for laptop computers and tablets has seen literacy in schools begin to transmogrify, due to the advances of modern digital technology. This is in part due (but not limited) to the growing need, acceptance and popularity, as the division between home use and that found in classroom learning environments is…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Improvement, Influence of Technology, Handheld Devices
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Kalonde, Gilbert – Rural Educator, 2017
The purpose of this case study was to explore how rural high school teachers and students, grades 9-12 use iPads in class, the obstacles and barriers to teacher and student iPad use, and the relationship between types and frequency of use, in one high school in Southern Oregon. The study consisted of classroom observations and follow-up interviews…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Rural Schools, High Schools, Telecommunications
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